Opening: Three Rivers, PA 11:21 PM. We see a
dark wet deserted street running with thick forest on
either side. A red convertible (with the top up) is
parked alongside the road. Its lights are off. A girl
with red hair and a boy with long brown hair are sitting
inside. The boy opens his door, gets out and walks around
to the front. He pops the hood.

Boy: This will only
take a minute.

He looks around under the
hood for a second, then sees the problem. A loose battery
cable. As he reattaches it to the battery, there is a
large spark, and possibly a flash from inside the car,
but it is hard to tell with the hood up. The boy jumps
back from the pain of the shock. We hear the car door
shut and footsteps running hurriedly into the forest. The
boy pokes his head around from the front of the car.

Boy: Angela?

The rustling of the
underbrush indicates that the girl has run off into the
forest. The boy starts after her.

Boy: Angela? Wait,
where are you going? ANGELA!

The boy takes of after
her. We then see the girl running, with a frightened look
on her face, through the forest. The boy is chasing her,
not far behind. The girl runs out of shot over the top of
a small hill. As soon as she disappears, a light starts
to grow from behind the hill. The boy stops when he is
almost at the top. We see his face as the light grows
even brighter. He stares horrified into the light. Soon
the light is so bright we see nothing but white.

We then see the boy from
behind, a silhouette against the growing brightness
behind the hill. Just as he starts to go down into the
valley, we hear a camera click. The camera angle widens
until we are looking over the shoulder of another boy,
with curly blonde hair, who is taking pictures with his
camera. The camera pans around until we are looking
directly into the camera lens, with a brilliant light
reflected off the glass. There is another click. [Music
crescendo]

[X-Files theme]

A car pulls up in the
parking lot of a police station. Mulder and Scully get
out and walk towards the door. A detective sees them walk
in and immediately gets up from his desk and goes over to
meet them.

Detective: Agents
Mulder, Scully?

Mulder: Yes?

Detective: Hi,
Im glad you could make it. Im Detective John
Dyer, in charge of the investigation. (They walk over to
Dyers desk; he begins looking through the large pile of
scattered papers on top of it.)

Scully: If you
dont mind me asking, detective Dyer, would you mind
telling me why you specifically ask for our involvement
in this case. As far as I

Dyer: Well
thats no mystery. I have a close friend at the FBI,
and when I told him about the case, he said you two were
the only ones who could really be of any help.

Scully: But you
report stated that this was nothing more that a simple
case of kidnapping and possible homicide. Certainly any
number of agents could have handled

Dyer: Agent Scully.
(He pauses for a second, trying to think of what to say)
Perhaps it would be easier to drop this line of
discussion until youve seen all Ive seen.
(Mulder and Scully give him a look of resignation -
meaning "then show us.") This is the girl
whos missing. (He shows them a picture of the red
haired girl.) Her name is Angela Chase, 15 years old, at
sophomore at the local high school. Decent grades, decent
home life. No dark secrets that I could dig up.

Mulder: No reason
to run away.

Dyer: Exactly. That
coupled with the boyfriends story seems to discount
that as a likely possibility.

Scully: The
boyfriends story?

Dyer: Did I not
mention that in the report?

Scully: No, you
didnt.

Dyer: Oh. OK. Well,
this is the boyfriend (he shows them a picture of the
longhaired boy) His name is Jordan Catalano. He
claims Well, Im not sure he claims anything.
But if I were you, Id definitely start by talking
to him. But here is everything I know, all of it (Dyer
indicates the files sitting in piles on top of the desk.
He starts to walk over to another desk. Mulder starts to
look through the files.)

Scully: (going over
to Dyer and talking in a quiet tone) Detective Dyer?

Dyer: Yes, Agent
Scully?

Scully: Did you ask
for us specifically because you believe this case somehow
involves abduction by alien life forms?

Dyer: (getting
serious): To tell you the truth, Agent Scully, I have no
idea what this case involves. But Im not sure that
any possibilities need to be ruled out at this juncture.
Would you like some coffee?

Scully: Sure.

(Dyer walks over to the
coffee machine.)

Mulder: Detective
Dyer, I think we need to bring this "boyfriend"
in for further questioning.

Dyer: Certainly,
Ill get right on it. (Dyer walks out)

Scully: What is it?

Mulder: This
boys story. It doesnt add up.
Somethings not right.

Scully: Oh?

Mulder: Yeah, he
claims his girlfriend ran off into the woods and when he
chased after her he passed out, and cant remember
anything else. The police found him unconscious in the
woods the next morning.

Scully: Convenient.
Were there any witnesses?

Mulder: None.

Scully: (flipping
through some papers herself) This is odd. His hospital
report indicates extremely high levels of adrenaline and
alatonin. Dangerously high. Not exactly what you would
expect for someone who had spent the whole night
unconscious in the woods. Id really like to take a
look at him.

Mulder: Well, such
high levels of alatonin are usually present in people who
have

Scully: Mulder,
dont say it.

Mulder: (pauses for
a moment, then seems to give the argument up.) Well, I
think you'd better prepare yourself, Scully.

Scully: Whys
that?

Mulder: I get the
definite feeling that this kid is very good looking.
(Gives her a smile.)

[Scene change: Jordan is
sitting in a chair in an interrogation room. Scully,
Mulder and Dyer are sitting on the other side of the
table.]

Jordan: Jordan Adam
Catalano.

Mulder: Age?

Jordan: 18.

Mulder: Can you
tell me about the night Angela disappeared?

Jordan: Well. We
were driving down Johnson road, and all the sudden, the
car just stops, you know. For like, no reason. It
wouldnt even turn over. So I got out and looked
under the hood. Then all of the sudden, Angela like,
jumps out of the car and runs off into the forest.

Scully: And you ran
after her?

Jordan: Well, yeah.

Mulder: Why do you
think she ran?

Jordan: I
dont know.

Mulder: It
wasnt because of the fight?

Jordan: The fight?

Mulder: The
argument that you and Angela were having.

Jordan: We
werent having a fight.

Mulder: Why else
would she run away.

Jordan: (louder) I
dont know.

Mulder: I think you
do.

Jordan: I
dont I dont know! It had nothing to do
with the argument!

(Silence)

Scully: Dont
you think you should tell us about the argument.

Jordan: (silent for
a second) Well, it wasnt really an argument. You
see I sent her this letter, and she thought that I wrote
it. But I didnt, someone else did. And when I told
her, I thought shed be like mad, or
something.

Scully: Was she?

Jordan: No. She
was She was silent.

Mulder and Scully are
walking out of the police station.

Scully: I think we
almost have enough to convict this kid, Mulder. If we
could just find what .

Mulder: (getting
into the car) He didnt do it.

Scully: (also
getting into the car) What?

Mulder: (starting
the car and driving away) He didnt do it. Hes
telling the truth. Or at least what he remembers of it.

Scully: Mulder,
hes obviously hiding something. He lied during his
first questioning, how do we know hes not still
lying? (She looks a Mulder for a moment, trying to figure
out what hes thinking) Come on Mulder. Despite what
I may or may not believe about the existence of extra
terrestrials, there is absolutely no indication that
alien abduction figure in any way to this case.

Mulder: What about
the boys story?

Scully: The boy had
no story, Mulder! He didnt remember anything!

Mulder: Memory loss
is very common in close encounter victims.

Scully: Just
because he doesnt remember what happened? Certainly
you cant believe..

Mulder: Scully?

Scully
(exasperated) What?

Mulder: I
cant explain it right now. I I have a
feeling, OK?

Scully looks at him for a
second, then looks towards the road, silent.

The curly headed boy is
working in a red lit dark room, developing pictures. The
first picture he develops is of a red car parked by the
side of the road. The next few show two figures running
into a light, a light that grows brighter with each
photograph. The last picture shows the light lifting up
above the ground. The boy holds this last picture for a
moment, his hands shaking.

Mulder and Scully park
their car by the side of the road and get out. They walk
up into the forest, ducking under a "police tape -
dont cross" line. They continue walking
through the forest till they get to the top of a small
hill.

Scully: I
dont see anything.

Mulder continues to walk
down the hill, looking very hard at everything. When he
gets down to the bottom, he begins to look disappointed.

Scully: Mulder?

Mulder:
Theres nothing here.

Scully: What?

Mulder: Theres
nothing here, its like .

Man in the bushes:
Theyve cleaned everything up.

Mulder and Scully turn
around to look at the man. He is standing just at the
edge of the clearing, dressed in jeans and a tan shirt
and a blue jacket. He has a hat turned around backwards
on his head.

Man: All the burn
marks and the crushed vegetation, they cleaned it all up
before I was able to get out here and document it.

Mulder: Then how do
you know it was here?

Man: I know.

Scully: Who are
you?

Man: Oh, Im
sorry. Fred Hairbuts the name, current president of the
Alien Believers Club.

Scully: The Alien
Believers Club?

Fred: Yeah (he
turns his hat around and shows that it displays the
initials of the organization) a local organization. But
one very interested in this kind of thing. I believe this
is going to be our biggest find. Speaking locally, of
course. Not a Rosswell or anything.

Mulder: Find? Then
maybe you can tell us what you found.

Fred: She was
abducted, isnt obvious.

Scully: Obvious?

Fred: What other
explanation could there be? (A slight pause) Its
quite the standard government cover up. There were about
10 agents in town the night after it happened. And they
did an excellent cleanup job, dont you think? See
over there (he points to some bushes on the edge of the
clearing.) Its my guess that those were planted to
cover the burn marks on the ground. In fact, Id say
from the almost complete lack of evidence at this site,
we are dealing with a rather high cover up indeed.
Rosswell has nothing on this place. (Mulder and Scully
look at him a bit incredulously - they seemed stunned by
his tirade. Hairbutt continues.) And if you will excuse
me, I have some other business to take care of. (He walks
off in the trees. Mulder and Scully watch him go for a
few seconds in silence.)

Scully: Well that
was interesting.

Mulder: You must
admit he makes a convincing argument. The lack of
evidence is compelling.

(They walk off towards
their car.)

A dark street. The curly
head boy, looking very upset, is climbing a tree by the
street. He has a rope in his hand. He starts to tie the
rope around the limb above him, and then to tie the other
end into a noose. As he slips the noose around his neck,
he begins to cry. He mutters to himself "Im
sorry, Angela, Im sorry." He stands up on the
limb and looks down at the street. The shot shows his
point of view of the street, which wobbles slightly. The
shot returns to a close-up of the curly haired boys
face. He closes his eyes and mutters, "Im
sorry".

He jumps.

Scene: Mulder and Dyer are
sitting around a desk.

Dyer: Hairbuts?
Yeah, I know him. A local nut. Went crazy after his wife
and daughter died a few years back. Thinks the little
green men are out to get him.

Mulder: But today
he was certain that they got the girl.

Dyer: Yeah, well,
he thinks theyre out to get everybody. I think
hes tried to convince us that every missing person
report weve had in the past 2 years has been
because of alien abduction.

Mulder: Has he ever
been right?

Dyer: [laughs] Not
yet. Youd think he give up after a while.

Mulder: Some people
never do.

Dyer: You might be
right. But I have to agree with Agent Scully, I think we
should bring this Catalano boy in on charges of homicide.

Mulder: We have no
weapon, no motive. (Scully walks up behind them) We
dont even have a body.

Scully: We do now.

Police cars are parked all
around a dark street. Mulder, Scully and Dyer pull up and
get out of the car. By a large tree, several policemen
are pulling a body down from a rope hanging from the
tree. They put the body on a stretcher and cover it
completely with a sheet. Scully and Dyer walk over to the
policemen and start asking them questions. Mulder spots a
lady with short, blond hair standing at the back of the
crowd, crying. He walks over to her.

Mulder: Mrs. Chase?

Patty: (still
crying) Yes?

Mulder: Im
Fox Mulder, Im with the FBI (he flashes his badge.)
Would you mind if I ask you a few questions?

Patty: I .

Mulder: I know this
is hard on you, but I could really use your help.

Patty looks up at him.

Patty and Mulder are
sitting at the Chases dining room table.

Patty: Why is this
happening? I think maybe, sometimes, Ill wake up in
the morning and shell be in her bed, and it will
have been a bad dream? This not knowing. Im
not sure I can live like this much longer. Its like my
whole life has been stopped, and it wont continue
until I find out shes OK. Or shes Does
that make any sense?

Mulder: A little.
(Silence.) Were Brian and Angela close?

Patty: Yeah. They
were they were friends at school. Do you think
thats why

Mulder: I
dont know why, Mrs. Chase. But I cant imagine
that just the fact that Angela is missing would cause him
to do what he did. There must have been something else.
Mrs. Chase, this is important, do you know of anyone else
we can talk to to find out why Brian might have done
this. Someone who knew Brian and Angela?

Patty: Rickie

Mulder: Rickie?

Scully (walking up
behind Mulder): Mulder, I think there is something you
should take a look at.

Patty: Rickie would
know.

Mulder: Thank you
Mrs. Chase. Well try our best to find out what
happened to your daughter.

Scully: Take a look
at these. (She hands him some pictures.) They were found
in the boys jacket.

Mulder (pausing by
a street lamp to get a better look at them) Theyre
are incredible.

Scully: Thats
one word for it. The car in the first picture belongs to
Jordan Catalano, and it is in the same location as it was
found the morning Catalano was picked up.

Mulder: The boy was
a witness to the whole thing.

Scully: He might
have been. But hes not talking now.

Mulder: They seem
to substantiate Hairbuts theory.

Scully: (looking at
him incredulously) Mulder, they substantiate nothing.
They are nothing more than pictures of a bright light in
a forest. They could be anything, a fire, a helicopter,
a, a very bright flashlight!

Mulder: Its too
white to be a fire, besides, wouldnt we have seen
burn marks in the forest? We didnt find anything,
remember? Theres no way a helicopter could have
made it into that dense clearing. And Scully, *this* (he
holds up the picture of a very bright light streaking up
towards the sky) is no flashlight.

Scully: And what do
you think it is? A flying saucer? Mulder, you want to
believe so much that you dont see the irrationality
of you own thought process. You can accept the story of
someone so obviously deranged as Hairbut simply because
you want to believe it. There is no proof.

Mulder: We
cant always find proof, Scully. But that
doesnt mean we should stop looking for it.

Fred Hairbut is standing
on a podium in a small but very crowded room. "Alien
Believers Club" is scrawled in chalk on a green
chalkboard.

Fred: People if I
could have your attention please!

Mulder, Scully and Dyer
walk into the back of the room and stand against the
wall. The crowd seems to quiet down a bit.

Fred: Thank you.
Thank you all for coming.

Mulder: (under his
breath to Dyer as Hairbut continues to talk) Are these
meetings usually this well attended?

Dyer: No, usually
its just Hairbut and one or two other loonies. This case
has been a windfall for him.

Mulder: To say the
least.

(Time passes, the meeting
continues, Mulder looks at his watch)

Fred: (Continuing)
Yes, we know exactly what happened to the girl. She was
abducted. Aliens in a flying saucer took her. (There are
several cries of disbelief from the crowd.) We believe it
was similar to one shown in this photograph here. If you
dont believe me, perhaps you like to hear it from
our visiting FBI agent. Perhaps theyd like to show
the photographs of the UFO they found on the boy who
killed himself last night. Would you like to do that,
Agent Mulder?

Mulder (to Scully)
Lets get out of here.

Mulder, Scully and Dyer
head for the door. Hairbut starts yelling at them as they
leave.

Fred: You cant hide
the truth forever, Agent Mulder! There are some of us who
know the truth! And we wont rest till everyone
knows!

Scully and Mulder are
walking down the sidewalk towards their car.

Mulder:
Theres something I dont like about this guy,
Scully.

Scully: Really, I
thought hed be just your type.

Mulder: Im
serious. I think he may be involved more than we realize.

Scully: Well, I
need to get to the coroners to look at the boy. Then
Id like to talk to this Vasquez boy. Maybe some of
Angela and Brians other friends.

Mulder: You better
go ahead without me, theres something I want to
take a look at.

Scully: OK, be
careful.

Mulder: (Walking
off down the sidewalk) Arent I always?

A sterile looking lab.
Scully is all done up in her autopsy garb. The curly
haired boy is lying on a slab. She extracts a blood
sample from the body and takes it over to some test
equipment located next to the stretcher. She looks into a
microscope and writes down some notes. She changes slides
on the microscope and looks at it again. This time she
seems taken back by what she sees. She looks through her
test results again. She stops what she is doing for a
moment, trying to figure something out. She reaches for
her cellular phone.

[Shot of cellular phone
laying in a car seat. It rings. Mulder picks it up.]

Mulder: Mulder.

[Scene changes back and
forth between Scully in the lab and Mulder in his car.]

Scully: Mulder, its
me.

Mulder: What is it?

Scully: I did a
work up on the boy, and I found something that might be
interesting. His blood contains extremely high levels of
adrinalin and alotonin, just like was found in Jordan
Catalanos blood the morning he was picked up.

Mulder: But
thats not that unusual in someone who was worked up
enough to kill himself.

Scully: Maybe not,
but I also found a trace amount of lithium triperoxin as
well.

Mulder: Im
not following you.

Scully: In World
War II the Germans did experiments with combining
alotonin along with lithium triperoxin to form a kind of
truth drug. They found that it altered the
physiological structure of the adrenal cortex. When
combined with a high level of natural adrenaline, it
placed the subject in a highly suggestible state.

Mulder: Where the
same elements found in the other boys test results?

Scully: I
dont know, the test werent performed.

Mulder: Could we
run the test now as see if the chemical is still present?

Scully: We could,
but most likely we wouldnt find anything. The
lithium triperoxin would be broken down by the
bodys own chemical processes within a day or two,
leaving no way to discern it from the bodies natural
chemicals.

Mulder: Plus the
two boys extremely different reactions seem to discount
it as a likely hypothesis.

Scully: Not
necessarily. One reason why the triperoxin treatment was
unsuccessful was that the subjects reactions to it where
highly individual. On some patients the drug almost had
no effect, while others had extreme reactions of anywhere
to complete memory loss to delusional psychosis, even
hallucination.

Mulder: Are you
saying that this Krakow boy could have been drugged? And
that who ever drugged him is somehow involved with the
abduction of Angela Chase?

Scully: It could
be, Mulder, but it makes no sense. Theres no
conceivable motive. Who could have possibly benefited
from Angelas disappearance and Brians death?

Scene change:
Morning. Rickie is walking down the school hallway,
looking quite upset. Rayanne and Sharon walk up to him,
but he doesnt seem to see then. Rayanne stops him
by force, and he seems to notice her.

Rayanne: Rickie, my
God, are you OK?

Rickie: I
cant believe it. Its, like, unbelievable.

Sharon: I know,
its so unreal. Maybe you better sit down.

[Sharon and Rayanne lead
Rickie over to a bench on the side of the hallway and sit
him down in-between them. Rickie is still dazed.]

[Rayanne runs her hand
across Rickies head, looking perplexed and not sure of
what to say.]

Sharon: Maybe the
FBI guys will figure it out.

Rayanne: FBI?

Sharon: Yeah, they
came to my house yesterday and talked to me. Like, asked
me questions.

Rayanne: What
about?

Sharon: About
Angela. Why did I think she might have run away? Or why
someone may have taken her. They didnt make a lot
of sense, really. They didnt talk to you?

Rayanne: No. [she
looks up and sees a woman in a suit walking towards them,
silhouetted against the morning sun threw the window.]
Not yet.

[The woman walks up. Its
Scully. She looks at the group of three.]

Scully: Are you
Rayanne Graff?

Rayanne: Yes?

Scully: Would you
mind talking to me for a few moments? About your friend
Angela?

Rayanne: Yeah, OK.
I guess.

Scully: [smiling]
it will only take a few minutes.

Scene change:
Mulder is in the local library flipping through some
files, but to him looking up some newspaper articles, and
then to doing more research. He looks frustrated.
Detective Dyer walks up to him as he is looking through a
series of files.

Dyer: Any luck,
agent Mulder?

Mulder: [pushing
the files away, disgusted] No. Nothing. [Pauses for a
second, thinking] Detective Dyer, can I ask you
something?

Dyer [sitting down]
Sure.

Mulder: This
Hairbut guy, the local UFO nut?

Dyer: Yeah, what
about him?

Mulder: You said he
went crazy after his family died, right?

Dyer: Right. His
wife died about three years ago in a car wreck, then
about 8 months after that, his daughter was raped and
killed.

Mulder: This all
happened here? In Three Rivers?

Dyer: Yeah.

Mulder: Then why
can I find no record in any paper of any Fred Hairbut any
newspaper or public record thats more than two
years old. And none that mentions anything about his wife
or daughter?

Dyer: Oh
thats easy. He changed his name.

Mulder: He changed
his name?

Dyer: Yeah, told
you he went loony.

Mulder: [slowly]
Could you please tell me what his name used to be then.

Dyer: Sure, Fred
Barsh.

Mulder: Barsh?

[Mulder flips through some
of the newspapers he was looking at, and pulls one out.
The headline reads "Still No Suspects In Barsh Rape
Case."]

Scene changed, Mulder
slaps the newspaper down on the desk in front of Scully.

Mulder: I think we
may have something here.

Scully: Wait. Are
you telling me someone actually voluntarily changed their
name to Hairbut?

Mulder: Scully, it
makes sense. The man who raped daughter was never found.
She was missing for almost three weeks before they found
her body. He was so unable to deal with the fact that
someone kidnapped, raped and killed his daughter that he
invented the kidnapped by aliens story to keep himself
sane.

Scully: Sane?

Mulder: You know
what I mean. But people dont believe him when he
talks about alien abductions, so he fakes another one -
this time with Angela Chase - so that other people will
believe him. So he can believe that the same thing
happened with his own daughter. But this Brian boy sees
him, so he drugs him as well, to the point where the boy
commits suicide. How else would he have known about the
pictures in the boys jacket, unless he planted them
there himself?

Scully: Mulder, OK,
Ill admit. It is somewhat plausible to believe that
such a scenario is a possibility. But to go from there to
a concrete case, its. We just dont have the
evidence. Its just a wild theory.

Mulder: Scully,
its the best lead we have.

Scully: Mulder,
saying that someone is a murder suspect simply because
their own daughter was murdered., its ludicrous! I
mean, we have no other reason to connect Angela Chase
with this Jody Barsh! None at all.

[Rayanne pops her head in
the door just as Scully finishes her last sentence.]

Rayanne: Jody
Barsh? What has she got to do with this?

[Mulder and Scully turn
around and stare at her.]

Scene change.
Interrogation room.

Rayanne: We were,
friends, I guess. We used to hang out, anyway.

Mulder: Were you
still friends when she was killed?

Rayanne: Uh, yeah.
We were at this party, and there were these guys, and
uh . She said she wanted to go! I didnt make
her go.

Scully: Go where?

Rayanne: With that
guy. At Lets Bolt.

Scully: Lets Bolt?

Rayanne: Its
like this club. Ok, see, this is what happened. We were
drinking, and these guys came up and started talking to
us, and they wanted to us to go somewhere with them.

Scully: Did you go
with them?

Rayanne: Yeah. But
not together. See, the thing is, Jody didnt want to
go at first. But then she changed her mind.

Mulder: What can
you tell us about Jodys Dad?

Rayanne: That
wacko? Not much, other than hes completely crazy,
always has been. I think hes into weird drugs too.
Me and Jody were nosing around in her garage once, and we
found this stuff, and wow! That was some of the best
stuff Ive ever had. Its like it made
everything make sense.

Mulder and Scully exchange
looks.

Scene change to shots of
Police serving a search warrant for Mr. Hairbut, and then
his arrest while Mulder does a voice over.

Mulder: A search of
Hairbuts home revealed several mixtures of alotonin and
lithium triperoxin, along with several photographs of
Hairbut that were later proved to have been taken with
Brian Krakows camera. Hairbut was brought up on
charges of the murder of Brian Krakow. However, no
evidence directly linking Hairbut to the disappearance of
Angela Chase has been found, and her whereabouts or the
location of her remains continues to be a complete
mystery.